Zizi Papacharissi

Zizi Papacharissi is a Greek-American writer in addition to communications researcher. She is professor and head of a department of communication at the ]

Biography

Papacharissi was born and raised in Thessaloniki and graduated from Anatolia College in 1991. She earned a double BA in Economics and Media Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 1995; an MA in Communication Studies from to Kent State University in 1997; and a Ph.D. in New Media and Political Communication from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.